Re: new ARN-L host and address

[Victor Steinbok <Victor.Steinbok@verizon.net>]

At 8:06 AM -0800 02.01.03, Erwin Morton wrote:
> Monty, Eric--
>
> One thing not mentioned in the message below:
> isn't the interversity.org host limited to plain ascii text,
> with no attachments?  If so, will that be a problem?
> Many of us have been using at least some formatting
> for clarity, and occasionally attaching things that are
> not easily turned into plain text.
>
> (One advantage of plain text:  no viruses, ever.)
>
> Will all non-ascii stuff in the archives either go away
> or become inaccessible?
>
> Thanks--
>
> --Erwin

I suspect the greatest difficulty will be not just in attachments (I 
would welcome fewer graphics files) and formatting (we'll learn other 
ways to emphasize), at least, not directly. One thing that I noticed 
is that many of newspaper clippings come as attachments rather than 
in-line HTML. That means that instead of being stripped of codes, the 
entire messages will disappear and we'll get nothing but the headers. 
I've encountered this problem trying to forward messages from some 
Yahoo lists when my server gave unexpected bounces. The forwards are 
ASCII only and there is no easy way to tell when you look at the 
message whether the enclosed HTML clip is in-line or attached.

I have gone around the problem for the past year by forwarding the 
clippings to myself first, then stripping HTML before forwarding to 
anyone else, including this group. But, for people with slow 
connections and limited disc space, this may not be an option.

	VS-)